INTERESTING FACTS-6

(1) A pregnant gold fish is called a twit.

(2) Rocks explode in microwaves.

(3) Steam rollers don't actually roll steam.

(4) 1,111,111 x 1,111,111 = 1234567654321

(5) Coca-Cola is better at cleaning your drain pipes than products like Draino.

(6) The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

(7) The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and coughed."

(8) The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

(9) The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

(10) Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."